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I already responded elsewhere. You got the wrong idea again...sigh. What can I say. First of all, there are three not four different symbols. These three symbols do not converge into one sound and this has long been recognized. They are "d", "t", and the word "dj" which is not a letter. The reason why Champollion converged them into Greek "t" is that this was the version on the stone he could read. I can assure you that no Egyptologist, heck no tourist learning glyphs in Cairo, would read a "rdj" as "t". "rdj" means to give. It's a verb, not a letter.

Also, the hand symbol is merely turned left or right depending on the direction of reading. All trivial things Champollion just didn't see right away, but how to blame him? He did great.

It turns out that the spelling of the same word actually varies in different texts, sometimes in the same passage of the Pyramid Text going from one king or queen to the other. So even the Egyptians themselves substituted letters. One example is the name of the goddess Satet and another example is the name Isis.